Wilfred Enow Agbor
Yaounde, Cameroon.
Over 300 students, 17 administrative staff and lecturers of the University of Yaounde II received attestations from Turkish ambassador, Ouma Farouk, for media training at a ceremony that took place at Salles des Actes.
The ceremony was chaired by Oumarou Bouba, Rector of the University. Officials present were Ouma Farouk, Turkish Ambassador to Cameroon, Mrs Elomo Ntonga Lissette, Secretary General at the University, Dr. Itir AKDOGAN, International Social Media expert from Turkey. Lecturers, administrative staff and students of the university were also present.
Turkish ambassedor awards a university student with attestation after social media trainning.
Operating under the theme, ”For the students with the students,” the University aims at making the media an easy tool for communication by training students. The global plan is to transform and upgrade the university’s website with interesting and educative programs which will attract students, administrative staff and lecturers to communicate, and the general public can also be informed about the institution.
The University’s points of interest for the training were the following:
Rector, Oumarou Bouba and Turkish media expert pose with university lecturers who recieved attestation.
- To check examination fraud.
- To enable students register into the institution via the media without necessarily going through the stress of depositing documents.
- To ease publication of lecturers’ contact information to be readily available to students.
- To ease publication of general information and students’ results instead of the traditional method of pasting on the walls where the results are destroyed by rain or recalcitrant students.
Rector, Media expert and social media trainees pose after award ceremony.
- To involve students in decision making.
- And above all to ameliorate the technological competence of students.
It is due to the above reasons that the University organized the first phase of the training for the use of social media that took place on the 18th to 22nd of January 2013.
This training took five days to complete. Lectures and practical work was done under the supervision of Turkish media expert, Dr. AKDOGAN.
The second phase took place on the 22nd of June, 2013. This was the award ceremony. The Turkish ambassador, His Excellency, Ouma Farouk, awarded participants for their completion of the social media training. The ambassador mentioned that the 21st century is full of technological innovations and therefore a country like Cameroon should invest on educating the youths in Technology through media.
During the award ceremony, participants were advised to put into practice what has been thought. Promise, who was one of the students, said the training session was an eye opener to him. “I can now use twitter to communicate, I have learned to use the media for other important things like researching, apart from just chatting with friends,” Promise concluded.
